Warwick Fyfe

Baritone

Warwick Fyfe is a Helpmann Award-winning singer and is considered one of Australia’s finest baritones. Warwick has a long association with Opera Australia and, more recently, has been expanding his international career working with English Touring Opera, Welsh National Opera, New Zealand Opera and performing in concert in Australia, the U.K, New Zealand, Singapore and Vietnam. In 2016, he sings Alberich in Opera Australia’s revival of The Ring, Paolo in Simon Boccanegra and Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia; in 2017 – Klingsor (Parsifal) in Sydney, Alberich (Das Rheingold) in Tokyo and Peter (Hansel and Gretel) in Singapore.

Warwick has consistently produced outstanding performances in challenging and complex roles including Rigoletto, Falstaff, The Dutchman in Der fliegende Holländer; Mandryka in Arabella; Dr Coppelius, Lindorf, Dr Miracle and Dappertutto in Tales of Hoffmann; Dr Schön in Lulu; Amonasro in Aida; Scarpia in Tosca; Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier; Wolfram in Tannhäuser; Papageno in The Magic Flute; Germont in La traviata; Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier; Leporello in Don Giovanni; Pizarro in Fidelio. Other roles include: Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia; Pooh-Bah in The Mikado; Schaunard in La bohème; Peter in Hansel and Gretel; Falke in Die Fledermaus; Jupiter in Orpheus in the Underworld; Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro; Kothner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; the Herald in Lohengrin; Ottokar in Der Freischütz; Chief of Police in Lady Macbeth of Mtensk; Ping in Turandot; Tonio in Pagliacci; Taddeo in L'italiana in Algeri; Fasolt in Der Ring des Nibelungen

Warwick was the recipient of a Helpmann Award for his 2013 performance as Alberich in the Melbourne Ring Cycle. Other awards include: Bayreuth Scholarship 2007; Green Room Award, 2005 (Schaunard in La bohème); Leopold Julian Kronenberg Foundation Award (Stanislaw Moniuszko International Vocal Competition, Warsaw) 2000; Bayreuth Bursary, 2000; The McDonald's Aria, 1998 (Winner). Helpmann nominations also include Papageno (The Magic Flute) and Daland (Der fliegende Holländer). In 2015, he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study Wagnerian vocal technique in Germany, the US and the U.K.